Cute little mini pizzas topped with tomatoes, onions and cheese. Perfect for individual serving.

Recipe Snapshot

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  • Yield: 5 mini pizzas
  • Category: Recipes
  • Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

For the crust

  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon instant yeast
  • 3/4 cup warm water (at 115 F)

For the pizza

  • 1 medium onion (cut into rings or sliced)
  • 2 medium tomatoes (cut into rounds)
  • 1.5 cups grated pepper jack cheese (or any other cheese of choice)
  • dried basil (to sprinkle)
  • olive oil (to drizzle)
  • salt (to taste)
  • pepper (to taste)
  • cornmeal

Method

Crust

  1. In the steel bowl of your stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment mix together both flours, sugar, salt, yeast and olive oil.
  2. Add warm water and as the dough starts coming together change to the dough hook.
  3. Knead till the dough is smooth and springs back on poking. This will take 5-6 minutes. If you don't have a stand mixer, you can just knead the dough with your hands.
  4. Place the dough in a bowl and coat it nicely with olive oil. Cover with a cling sheet and keep it in a warm place to rise. This will take 1-2 hours, mine doubled in 1 hour 15 minutes.
  5. Once the dough has doubled, punch it to release the air. Let it sit for 5-10 minutes.

Pizza

  1. Preheat your oven to 475 F degrees.
  2. Make 5 medium sized balls from the dough.
  3. Sprinkle some cornmeal on the pans. Take 1 ball and simply stretch and spread the dough in the mini pizza pan till the pan is completely covered.
  4. Poke the crust with fork all over. Repeat till you have 5 mini pizza crusts ready. Drizzle some olive oil on the crust.
  5. Put the crust in the preheated oven at 475 F degrees for 2-3 minutes. This step is optional but I did this to get a crispier crust. If you aren't bothered about crispier crust, just move to the next step.
  6. Take out the pizza crust from the oven and cover it with some grated cheese. Sprinkle some dried basil and then put your topping - cut tomatoes/onions.
  7. Cover with some more cheese and basil and sprinkle salt and pepper.
  8. Put the pizza in the preheated oven and bake at 475 F degrees for 8-10 minutes or till the cheese melts and starts to bubble.
  9. Sprinkle some fresh coriander leaves on top (optional), cut into slices and serve hot!

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.